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...relentless. The rice paddies, which need at least a foot of water, have less than one or two inches. The corn, which should be as tall as I am at this time of year, is barely half my height. Prospects for both the rice and the corn harvests are bleak. Everything is parched, and with each rainless day, water is vanishing with cruel rapidity. One evening I was at a huge lake, the Sohung reservoir, in the country's breadbasket. To be accurate, I was at what was once a huge lake. It is 96% gone, simply evaporated into thin...
Residents objected not only to the possibility that the new development would contain primarily pricy housing but also to the structure itself, citing concerns that the building's height is inappropriate for the scale of the Central Square area. The development's proposed height is considerably in excess of the height limit imposed by the area's zoning and would require a variance from the Board of Zoning Appeals...
Certainly, at his death, the designer was at the height of his powers, with his fashion house stitching together numbers as eye catching as its merchandise. The profits of Gianni Versace SpA, which puts its Medusa-head logo on everything from $15,000 evening gowns to $395 bath-towel sets, soared from $7.9 million in 1990 to $43.5 million in 1996. Worldwide sales of Versace-brand products, including items manufactured by licensed companies, are on track to top $1 billion this year...
However pressured his life became, Carrillo died at the height of his power. Forging important alliances with Colombia's Cali drug cartel in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Carrillo pioneered the use of Boeing 727s and cargo aircraft to move tons of cocaine from South America to Mexico, where supplies were then shipped and trucked across the U.S. border. More significant, Carrillo demanded that the Colombians pay him in white powder rather than cash. This allowed him to set up vast U.S. distribution networks of his own. With most of the Cali dons imprisoned since 1995, Carrillo had become...
...University has been voicing concerns over a recent zoning petition by the Cambridge Residents for Growth Management (CRGM) that proposes to change building height and density codes across Cambridge. The proposal could impose substantial restrictions on University property holdings...